Puddie told me that it looked like I was preparing Iron Chef America’s Kitchen Stadium 😉

2. If I had it to do over again ( and I will 😉 ) I would prep and chop my veggies the day before.

It was a lot of front end work that took a lot of time.

Things went much faster after the 2 hours prep of chopped goods.

I mean shew… those pre-sliced mushrooms took a long time;)

3. Cooking is easier while Monkey is entertained. No brainer–right? Lol! But videos and typical Monkey activities do not cut it for FREEZE-O-RAMA. Next time Miss Add will have a day long date with Daddy or Mommy will only cook while Add is napping or sleeping.

Case in point: Ground Beef. Turns out when cooking mass quantities you need to stir often and at times constantly (think gravy stirring like).

BTW: This would NOT be the time to peek out on the back deck to snap a quick shot of your little slugger with her Daddy… I don’t know why you thought it would be–I mean there are 7lbs of ground beef on the stove and if you burn it FREEZE-O-RAMA will come to a halt!

Thank goodness I set you straight just in time to prevent that from happening and the ground beef was ok;)

5. Chicken shears are a gals best friend 😉

They make light work of cutting up 6 lbs of chicken breasts.

Perfect for 2 recipes

6. Freezer burn is the enemy so take precaution. Now I don’t have a fancy machine (yet;) ) so I had to take FishMama’s advice and use a straw to extract air from many of the cooked or fresh items.

I also made sure each of my dishes got a nice tight layer of Glad’s Press and Seal right on top of the casserole before placing the foil on top.

7. I realized half way through that a month’s worth of not having to cook means a months worth of not having to clean up after cooking! Yay! Mommy-score! This might be my favorite of all 😉

In the end I had 2 meatloaves (above)

4 left over bags of seasoned ground beef

2 family and 2 individual portions of Lasagna in a Pot (recipe to come in a later post)

I will let you know how FREEZE-O-RAMA thaws out with the rest of us this March.

About CrisI am the mama behind GOODEness Gracious and the owner of Cris Goode Solutions.Here at GOODEness Gracious, we like to keep it light and fun as we cook up family meals, share our super mommy secrets and chat it up about the GOODe life:)So come on in and sit a spell.

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Not only am I tired, but I'm trying to picture the freezer that is going to hold all this stuff!! WOW!! That's a lot of work, but you are going to be so thanking yourself when you get to come home to an already prepared meal! Let us know how it all tastes…

Not only am I tired, but I'm trying to picture the freezer that is going to hold all this stuff!! WOW!! That's a lot of work, but you are going to be so thanking yourself when you get to come home to an already prepared meal! Let us know how it all tastes…